University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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U.S. News UNITED STATES NEWS: The U.S. throughout the year was plagued with forest fires as country wide record setting highs kept the ground dry and in perfect condition for fires. Some of the more costly fires en- countered were in Santa Barbara, California where in June over 280 homes were lost and damages were estimated in the mil- lions. At the Tonto National Forest in Arizona fires con- sumed over 35,000 acres of land before it was able to be The battle on drugs never stopped as drug enforce- ment agents were continu- ously battling the drug world. The year was no ex- ception as drug enforce- ment agents uncovered a wide variety of stashes and drug related mechanisms. In Nogales, Sonora Mexico ... A large warehouse was used to store illegal drugs in a concealed room under a hydraulic lift. Mexican officials seized 601 bales of Marijuana after a 10 minute gun battle with the drug controlled. Oliver North who in July of 1987 was convicted on dif- ferent accounts for his par- ticipation in the Iran Contra Affair had a conviction re- versed by federal appeals court which sent his case back to a lower court to determine whether it was tainted by his immunized congressional testimony. On June 8th the trial closed on brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez who were ac- cused of killing their par- ents. Later that month the trial came to end and both brothers were found guilty of murder one. 134 NEWS I runners. In addition three 12-gauge shotguns, four 9mm machine guns, two silencers, a .22 caliber rifle and a 7mm scope-equipped rifle were seized. The warehouse and hydrolic lift were believed to be linked to a drug tunnel discovered recently in Agua Prieta, Mexico and Douglas, Arizona which connected the U.S. -Mexico borders and was thought to be in use over a period of years allowing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of drugs to be traf- ficed. Other significant drug busts took place in Los Angeles where agents from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire- arms as well as the DEA took possession of 20 tons of cocaine worth more than $2 billion at a Los Angeles warehouse. It was the larg- est seizure on record. As well as the cocaine more than $10 million in cash was found. The DEA men- tioned however that for ev- ery 1 million dollars of drugs busted there is over 20 million dollars worth of drugs making it suc- cessfully to the streets of America.

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